Heatseekers charts

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The Heatseekers charts are "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard magazine. The Heatseekers Albums and the Heatseekers Songs charts were introduced by Billboard in 1991 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical recording artists.[1] Albums and songs appearing on Top Heatseekers may also concurrently appear on the Billboard 200 or Billboard Hot 100.

Albums chart

The Heatseekers Albums chart contains 25 positions that are ranked by

Christian Albums, or Gospel Albums charts, the album and later works no longer qualify for tracking on Heatseeker Albums.[2] This definition means that some artists can still qualify as "new and developing" for years, even decades; The Tragically Hip
placed on the Heatseekers Albums chart 10 times between 1992 and 2016, yet they still qualified as "new and developing" as they never had an album in Billboard's top 100.

Many artists have bypassed Top Heatseekers altogether by having their initial chart entry debut on the Billboard 200 at position 100 or better.

Songs chart

The Heatseekers Songs chart contains 25 positions, rated by a combination of

Nielsen BDS airplay measurements, Nielsen SoundScan sales data, and streaming activity figures from online music sources. Like Heatseekers Albums, this chart tracks titles from "new or developing acts", similarly determined by the acts' historical chart performance. An artist's song is no longer eligible for Heatseekers Songs when the artist has had a song place in the top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100 (or has had a radio song before December 5, 1998).[3]

The Heatseekers Songs chart was quietly discontinued on December 6, 2014; the final chart was released on November 29, 2014, and the final #1 song on the chart to date was "Girl in a Country Song" by Maddie & Tae.[4]

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